Blake Lewis may have come in second place on season 6 of American Idol, but he won't be seeing a second release on Arista Records. A rep for the major tells EW.com that the label "will not be picking up Blake's option" for any future recorded projects. Lewis will, however, remain on Idol creator Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings roster.

The news first broke on popular Idol online destination MJ's big blog, which featured an audio interview with Lewis where he said that, as of three days ago, he was informed he'd lost his recording contract. By Idol standards, his debut album, Audio Day Dream, which has yet to go gold, did not perform as well as expected. It sold 98,000 its first week and almost 300,000 to date. Lewis contends that, despite keeping most of the control over the recordings, he didn't have proper support for the release. He's not alone. Earlier this year, EW reported that former Idol winners Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard had also been unceremoniously dropped from the SonyBMG family. Says Arista: "We wish [Lewis] the best of luck in his future endeavors."

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/06/blake-lewis.html

wow, so every runner-up has gotten dropped so far besides Clay.

i hope David breaks the runner-up curse. Jive is a good label so i think he should do well.

i wonder why they dropped him so fast though? i mean it took them a year to drop Kat, Taylor Hicks, Diana, and Justin...he mustve pissed people off : o

i wonder why they dropped him so fast though? i mean it took them a year to drop Kat, Taylor Hicks, Diana, and Justin...he mustve pissed people off : o

As much as I love Blake, (and trust me, I was one of his biggest fans when he was on AI, I even went to see him in concert) I think he's really cocky, and has that sort of attitude...or at least he comes off that way in interviews. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Hopefully he'll put out a second album that'll do better!!! No doubt Blake's talented!!! :D